Legacy Modernization

Fujitsu has created a global legacy modernization offering with a mission to assist organizations in investigating the options available to leverage the greatest benefits from their existing applications. These applications represent a large investment, and it is to the company’s advantage to reduce the issues that existing applications may be causing the organization.

Once the appropriate options have been identified, Fujitsu can also help the client in undertaking the most suitable modernization approach.

Fujitsu often finds that much of the functionality of a legacy application is still required by an organization. In most cases, the organization has spent a great deal of money and effort over a long period of time, building applications that are customized to their needs and processes.

Issues and risks often result from the technology on which the applications are based. For example, the technology may no longer be supported, it may be difficult to retain skilled technicians, or the applications may be based on green-screen interfaces with which the current generation of technicians is not familiar.

These issues, and many others, can be resolved by the modernization of the systems without the need to replace them with complete packages or total rewrites. Implementation of Fujitsu Legacy Modernization techniques result in applications that use compatible technology and high quality code, so that the organization can continue to deliver a return on current and future investments.

Fujitsu Global Legacy Modernization resources are based in many countries around the world. These teams all use the same baseline capabilities, partners and skills to undertake the industrialized set of Fujitsu baseline capabilities. This means that Fujitsu can leverage its resources, experience and skills from around the world to assist clients in the successful implementation of legacy modernization projects.

Fujitsu also has a set of best-of-breed partners that assist the Fujitsu legacy modernization teams. These partners have a deep set of skills, tools and techniques that give Fujitsu access to even greater capabilities and allow us to offer additional options to move legacy applications forward. Based on previous experience, we believe that our global capabilities are able to migrate in excess of 90% of the legacy modernization technology challenges that are currently prevalent in ICT.

Baseline Capabilities

• Access Database to SQL Server Conversion
• Application Modernization, Mash-up Creation and User Interface Integration
• Application Value Assessment
• Fujitsu Progression. Mainframe and Midrange to .NET
• Mainframe Migration to Open Source
• Migration from mainframe and midrange COBOL to NetCOBOL
• Modernization of Client Server Applications to Web Browser
• Modernization to Cloud Services